1910-20
Hugh the Drover or Love in the Stocks
See also A Cotswold Romance (Choral Works)
Dedication: Sir Hugh Allen.
Romantic Ballad Opera in two for nine soloitst, mixed chorus and orchestra. Words by Harold Child.
1924-8
Sir John in Love
See also In Windsor Forest (Choral Works)
Four acts. Libretto adapted by RVW from Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor and other sources.
Dedication: S. P. Waddington.
A Prologue, Episode, and Interlude were also composed for performance at Bristol Opera School in October/November 1933.
1927-9
revisions 1936-7 and 1956-7
The Poisoned Kiss or
The Empress and the Necromancer
Three acts. Libretto by Evelyn Sharp, later amended by the composer and Mrs Ursula Vaughan Williams.
Arts Theatre, Cambridge, 12 May 1936.
1925-32
Riders to the Sea
One act. J. M. Synge's play set to music.
1906-1952
The Pilgrim's Progress
A Morality.
Prologue, four acts, and epilogue. Libretto adapted from Bunyan by RVW with interpolations from the Bible and verse by Ursula Vaughan Williams (Ursula Wood).
See Philharmonia page 
1942
Music for The Pilgrim's Progress
Dramatised from Bunyan by Mrs W. Hadley and Miss E. Onless.
A prelude, music for twelve episodes, and an epilogue were composed. Eight numbers survive
1911
London Pageant
May Day Scene, thirteen items, all based on folk tunes and dances. Unison voices and instruments. Possible association with coronation of King George V.
1923
Old King Cole
A ballet for orchestra and chorus (ad lib).
1926
On Christmas Night
A masque with dancing, singing, and miming, freely adapted from Dickens's A Christmas Carol.
Dedication to Douglas Kennedy.
1930
Job, A Masque for Dancing
Founded on Blake's Illustrations of the Book of Job.
Dedication to Adrian Boult.
1933
The Running Set
Founded on Traditional Dance Tunes for Medium Orchestra.
1934
Music for the English Folk Dance Society Masque
2 flutes, 2nd doubling piccolo, 1 oboe, 2 bassoons, 1 horn, 1 trumpet, timpani (ad lib), triangle, strings.
1934
Music for The Pageant of Abinger
(arrangements of traditional tunes, plain-song, and familiar hymns).
1938
England's Pleasant Land
Music for a pageant by various composers, including RVW, for mixed chorus and military band.
Contains some of the music later used in the Fifth Symphony.
1938-9
The Bridal Day
See also Epithalamion (Choral Works)
A Masque by Ursula Wood, founded on Spenser's Epithalamion. For baritone soloist, speaker, dancers, mimers, mixed chorus, flute, piano, and string quartet.
1950
Solemn Music for the Masque of Charterhouse (final scene)
1958
The First Nowell
A Nativity Play for soloists, mixed chorus, and small orchestra. Libretto adapted from medieval pageants by Simona Pakenham. Music composed and arranged from traditional tunes by Vaughan Williams. Additions were made after his death by Roy Douglas.
There are 20 movements, eight of which were completed, adapted, revised, or added by Roy Douglas.
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